my lecturers... after 2 years

It has been quite a while since i blogged .. as you all know. Well now i'm back temporarily.

As long as i have started this blog, i have - surprisingly, or not? - never talked about my University. Wow.. has time gone by fast. While i was having a drink with one of my coursemates a few days ago, i looked back for a while in time and saw that it was 2 years already (almost) since i stepped into the front gate of University Malaysia Sarawak with my oversized luggage bag and 2 backpacks. After this semester i'll have only one more year before i graduate (hopefully) and decide if i want to continue on with my M.Sc. or to go out and toil in the corporate world. Well thats for later.. Today i'm gonna talk about the academic staff at my faculty, the Faculty of Economics and Business for a little bit of fun

DUring the drink i was having with my friend, we talked about our faculty and our lecturers. And we both have the same opinion about it - we like it a lot. Regarding public universities or institutions of higher learning, i'm sure a lot of you have heard allegations of unfair treatment of students, biased marking and so on from students. Some of the friends of my coursemates have even asked her if this happened at our faculty. Well.. our answer to that question is .. No.. not any that we have experienced so far. Bear in mind that i'm talking about my programme (not other programmes).

After studying here and getting to know those that have lectured me, my friend and i found them to be fair people who judge you by your work and performance. If you want some proof, you can just refer to the dean's list of our faculty. Maybe its not strong but i feel it does give some sort of support.Almost all the lecturers have been very helpful, fair and friendly. They dont pick on you for ur name or where you come from or how you look. And in some way i've been very happy that i came to this faculty even though its so far away from home. Of course there will always be bad people wherever, but they have been the small majority here and i've had the good luck of not having them lecturing my courses so far.

I dont know bout the allegations about other places in public universities, how true they are or if they really happened or not, but i can say that in my faculty those allegations dont happen in the economics programme. Here, i wanna say a big big thanks to all my lecturers so far for making me like economics and helping someone who doesnt know hoot about economics in the first place to understand it. And best of all for being great fair people who are interested and dedicated in passing on knowledge to anyone who wishes for it, whoever you are.

At the moment i'm still contemplating my postgraduate plan. If this place wasnt 'so close yet so far' from home, i would have stayed here to continue my postgraduate degree. Well, if i do continue my postgraduate, it would be at the UPM with the former colleagues or 'sifu' of my current lecturers. I forgot to mention that half of the academic staff in the economics programme of my faculty are alumnis of UPM hahaha.

Me doing a postgraduate degree in economics?? hmmm.... seemed so far away from what i wanted to be in the first place. But on hindsight, if you let me choose all over again now, i would without a doubt choose economics.